Yellow Ducky Race -FUNdraiser

ROTARY CLUB OF NORTHBROOK --Celebrating the 22^nd Annual Rotary Rubber Ducky Race coming up on September 15^th at Northbrook’s Shermerfest needs to be on your calendar. It also means tickets are now on sale.

 

In addition to providing an annual family tradition, the yearly Yellow Ducky Race is one of the fundraisers that supports local grants! This is an opportunity to teach children about being good citizens.

 

The grant committee interviews and selects recipients for funding. Grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 – totaling about $42,000 are awarded to several local non-profit organizations by the Rotary Club of Northbrook each year.

 

They have included North Suburban Special Recreation Assoc. Foundation; Northfield Township Food Pantry; Cancer Wellness Center; Friendship Circle of Illinois; Youth Services Glenview - Northbrook; Keshet; Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care; Northbrook Symphony Orchestra; Josselyn Center; Northbrook Historical Society; C.A.T.C.H.; Special Gifts Theatre; GBN Grad Night; Center For Enriched Living; BSA - Boy Scouts of America; Center on Deafness; Hunger Resource Network; Family Promise Chicago; Total Link 2 Community; and Gratitude Generation and so many more.

 

Want to be a part of it? Sponsor a Quack-Pak of 3 Ducky’s for $25; one “Lucky Duck” is $10 or $100 for a flock of 15 chances to win $1000, $500, $250 in cash prizes.